James has become obsessed with The Piano Guys. WARNING: You will get lost in their Youtube Channel for hours. Carol of the Bells is James’ favorite Christmas song and so this video in particular has been on loop. I also highly recommend this and this.
Another tragic Tuesday. And I’m speechless. This new video from Darlingside is hitting home. A little closer than I’d like. Beautiful.
“The Ancestor” by Darlingside – Official Music Video from Crazy Lake Pictures on Vimeo.
Settling into post-vacation life is always a tad rocky. I’m plowing through work emails, serenaded by the latest and greatest Darlingside music video. It’s not nearly as delightful as hearing them play live, off the shore of an island, but it shall have to suffice. You can snag the band’s new album here.
My favorite musicians, Darlingside, launched their first full length album yesterday. You would be crazy not to go buy Pilot Machines immediately. Not only are they some of the smartest, kindest, funniest, most talented dudes I know, their tunes and lyrics are pure genius. I seriously cannot say enough good things about them. And it’s not just because James and I get a shout out in the notes section of the album. But that certainly adds to my outpouring of love for them.
This stop motion video using tea lights is just one example of their humor and creativity.
Purchase, listen, share, rock. Repeat.
You can buy the album on iTunes. Learn more about tour dates on the Darlingside website (as they’re even more incredible to hear live). And of course, like the shit out of them on Facebook.
As a girl who grew up with a father who read her bedtime stories with a Yoda puppet, complete with Yoda voice, you can imagine that this video makes my heart soar.
I’m waving my nerd flag. Proudly.
Well I can’t say that Kimmy and I were ever this baller. Although our “music videos” to Madonna’s “True Blue” album (featuring me as Madonna and Kimmy as Billy Joel, obviously) were truly something special. Special in the “only a mother could love” sense.
I have higher hopes for Sunny and Kaki. Although I’ll probably think that anything that they do together is on par with this video, however deluded that feeling may be.
My boys over at Darlingside have done it again.
Another beautiful song that has become the anthem for getting me through this tough time.
My love for this song (still) knows no bounds. Oh and the dancing. I don’t think that that even needs comment!
I became positively enamored of the original of this song by Architecture in Helsinki in the spring of 2008, during our first year living on the beaches of Southern California. Kimmy and I can do quite the impressive “fertility dance” to the bass of the original, complete with dramatic hip thrusting and pelvic gyrations. It was my ring tone for at least two years running.
It takes me back to a far simpler time. Lounging on the beach. Under the stars. Listening to the crashing of waves. Dancing with the sand between our toes. Dreaming about the years ahead while spending our days tangled up in surfboard leashes and white water, and our evenings skinny dippping by the light of the moon. Filled with carne asada and the optimism of youth.
I feel a wash of nostalgic pleasure just hearing this beat. What an appropriate remix and video to take me back to those simple days in the sun.
Today, my heart is on the west coast.
James has been listening to this honky-tonk gem nonstop to power him through the many projects on his “Honey Do” list.
When we first started dating (i.e. watching movies in each other’s dorm rooms and “studying”), I informed James that I positively despised country music. He proceeded to make me a mix CD (people still do that right?) called “Just a Sweet Sweet Taste” with all of his favorite country jams to ease me into life with a bona fide country music lover.
I can’t say I hated it. Or that I haven’t been singing this little ditty myself.